Enquire询茶中文I found some lacquerware recently and wanted to try making tea with it. Fujian lacquer is famous, and I loved it back on the mountain; after I came down I even ran a lacquer studio with a friend. In the old days my hands would blister all over from the raw sap — it “bites.”
A lacquer piece is not painted and done. It must be polished and polished again, through ever finer grit, and finally rubbed out slowly with flour until it glows. One small piece can take months. That patience is why lacquer sits so well in a tea space: the beauty is warm to the touch, and it deepens with use.
One of the paintings shows a single morning glory. It reminds me of Sen no Rikyū: when the warlord came to see his famous morning glories, Rikyū had cut down every flower in the garden — and left one, in the tea room.
今天淘了几个漆器，想用这些漆器试一下泡茶的感觉。福建漆器是很出名的，以前在山上的时候我就喜欢；后来下山以后，跟朋友合作了一个漆器工作室。以前做漆，手被漆咬得全身长泡泡，很不容易啊。
漆器不是画上就行了。画上就要抛，用推光，不断地用磨砂，一直到几千目的细砂，最后用面粉慢慢搓、抛光它，才能达到这样子的效果。一件作品可能需要几个月的时间。正因这份耐心，漆器呈现在茶艺空间里效果特别棒：它的美感温润可触，越用越漂亮。
其中一幅漆画是一朵牵牛花。就想起当年千利休：丰臣秀吉想去看他家满园的牵牛花，他把庭院的牵牛花全部打掉，只留了一朵，供在茶室里。